Andries De Graaf was a citizen of New Amsterdam in 1661. His son Jan Andriese, brickmaker, was a resident of Albany in 1655; in 1658 he with two others, was fined 500 guilders for selling liquor to the Indians. In 1660 he went to New Amsterdam with one Roseboom and commenced the making of bricks. (107-1)
Claas Andriese De Graaf, another son of Andries De Graaf, was born about the year 1628 (107-2), and became one of the first settlers of Schenectady, taking up land at the Hoek, (107-3) in Scotia, where for several generations the family resided.
He probably died about 1697, in which year his wife leased her farm to Jonathan Stevens and Daniel Mascraft.
De Graaf married Elizabeth, daughter of Willem Brouwer of Albany; she survived her husband many years, dying in 1723.
Notes
(107-1) Valentine's Man., 1861, p. 521; Albany Co. Rec., 59, 221.
(107-2) Deeds, II, 88; Albany Co. Rec., 224.
(107-3) Called Claas Graven's hoek; another Claas Graven's hoek is mentioned in the old records — a portion of what subsequently became Cuyler's Patent at Crane's Village below Amsterdam.